太原市场研究与分析Taiyuan Market Analysis 20070619.docVIP

Tai Yuan Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province is an ancient city with a history of 2500 years. It was initially established in 497 B.C. in the Spring and Autumn Period (770—475 B.C.), called as Jinyang city. In the history of more than 2,000 years, Taiyuan has always been a military fortress town in Northern China, enjoying the reputation of controlling mountains and rivers, crouching on heavens shoulder and back. Later in the period of the Republic of China (1912- 1949), Taiyuan was the municipality under the direct jurisdiction of Shanxi Municipal Government. Tai Yuan is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in North China and is surrounded by hills in its west, north and east. It covers an area of approximately 6,998 sq km. The Fen He River, a key tributary of the Yellow River, runs through the city with a distance of approximately 100 km. Tai Yuan lies in the valley basin of both mountains of the Tai Hang Mountain in east and the Lu Liang Mountain in west. The city had a population of [3.4138] million at the end of [2004]. Now it governs one city, six districts and three counties, with 51 subdistrict offices, 488 urban community resident commissions, 54 town- ships, 1030 rural resident commissions and 1794 villages. *Provisional Figure Source: Tai Yuan Bureau of Statistic, Tai Yuan Statistic Information Web. In the early founding of the People s Republic of China, Tai Yuan was an industrial base. After more than 50 years, it has been built to possess a complete industrial system with various of industries as the pillars of energy, metallurgy, machinery and chemical, and other industries as textile, light industry, medicine, electronics, food, building materials, precise instruments, etc. The economy in Tai Yuan City is developing rapidly. Taiyuan is rich in mineral resources, with various varieties of minerals. The metal mineral resources mainly include iron, manganese, copper, lead and aluminium, etc. The non- metal mineral resources include c